Amos
Gunter | Oshilaja | Pearce | Maatsen
Williams | Pratley | Watson | Millar
Schwartz | Aneke
Substitutes Bench: Maynard-Brewer | Purrington | Matthews | Forster-Caskey | Morgan | Stockley | Washington
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Charlton v Swindon | Sat 23 Jan | 3pm | Match Preview, Predictions, News & Views
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Charlton Athletic v Swindon Town
Saturday 23rd January 2021 ... 3pm Kick-Off
Referee: James Linington (Newport)
Introduction
The way Charlton are performing at the moment you could be mistaken for thinking that they're playing some sadistic game with the supporters, four points from two games considering the opposition isnt great form, but it created a benchmark, and so victory over Bristol Rovers last Saturday ended the run of games without a win that dated back to the win over AFC Wimbledon - Tuesday night and it looked like we were about to start a new run before the customary mistakes returned meaning we left London Road with nothing when we perhaps deserved a little bit more... This Saturday though like any upcoming fixtures is an opportunity to quickly put that result behind us, and so start a run that must soon happen if we have any aspirations of a return to the Championship!!
The Opposition
Name: Swindon Town (23rd) | Manager: John Sheridan
Ground: The County Ground
Reverse Fixture: Swindon Town 2-2 Charlton Athletic
Despite it being late in January we've finally hit the stage of the season where we can say that we've faced every team at least once, we're at the halfway point... Usually this stage of the season will give us a clear reflection of where we are in the Division and what target is potentially required to reach whatever the endgame may be, with other sides having games outstanding (some with four games), it means the Division leaves a false representation so we can only guess what might happen come May.
The reverse fixture at Swindon has been one of the main talking points of our poor run of late. It was a game that Charlton never really controlled and it was very much a different performance to the one we'd seen against AFC Wimbledon just a few days beforehand, it didnt help we conceded first, and with us also conceding last (in what was a 2-2 draw) it kept the unwanted record of failing to win from 1-0 down in the League since the day Luton Town visited South East London in April 2019.
Since that spirited last gasp equaliser for Brett Pitman its been a couple of months of little change for our visitors this Saturday, the draw would leave the Robins in 22nd place, and having had two cancellations have only played three games since. As a result its given John Sheridan little to work on and as a result has seen Swindon drop a place. In those three games however they have recorded one victory (along with two defeats), coming on the road at Ipswich Town which proves that our opponents wont be travelling up the M4 simply to make up the numbers!!
Charlton Team News
The few positives from Tuesday night was the return of Darren Pratley, who amazingly survived until the dying stages before being booked, and a cameo from Andrew Shinnie returning from injury (despite having a hand in what would prove to be the winner) - Its meant that Lee Bowyer should soon be able to play the team that he wants without constraints, provided of course his players firstly learn to stay injury free, and secondly stop playing these childish games...
Suspension Tag" being the latest, it meant that Albie Morgan would miss the fixture against Peterborough yet could return to the team this Saturday, as too could Ben Watson having rejoined training following a slight hamstring injury at Hull City - Akin Famewo on the other hand remains absent from training so we'll surely see a match up of Deji Oshilaja and Jason Pearce in defence, whilst we could yet see a new Addick added to what is now the Valient 918, that of course will depend on whether the Management team can bring in any new players before 12noon tomorrow.
Prediction
As already mentioned in this preview, its alright for Alan Curbishley to say that every team has a blip (and its convienent we're having ours now), but at the same time its also important that a team comes out of its blip with plenty of time to make the required recovery and push if it wants to achieve promotion come the end of the season. Whilst I have my personal doubts over whether we can manage it anyway, its important we learn from the first half of the season and so turn fixtures like this from draws and defeats into wins... and soon!!
Saturday 23rd January 2021 ... 3pm Kick-Off
Referee: James Linington (Newport)
Introduction
The way Charlton are performing at the moment you could be mistaken for thinking that they're playing some sadistic game with the supporters, four points from two games considering the opposition isnt great form, but it created a benchmark, and so victory over Bristol Rovers last Saturday ended the run of games without a win that dated back to the win over AFC Wimbledon - Tuesday night and it looked like we were about to start a new run before the customary mistakes returned meaning we left London Road with nothing when we perhaps deserved a little bit more... This Saturday though like any upcoming fixtures is an opportunity to quickly put that result behind us, and so start a run that must soon happen if we have any aspirations of a return to the Championship!!
The Opposition
Name: Swindon Town (23rd) | Manager: John Sheridan
Ground: The County Ground
Reverse Fixture: Swindon Town 2-2 Charlton Athletic
Despite it being late in January we've finally hit the stage of the season where we can say that we've faced every team at least once, we're at the halfway point... Usually this stage of the season will give us a clear reflection of where we are in the Division and what target is potentially required to reach whatever the endgame may be, with other sides having games outstanding (some with four games), it means the Division leaves a false representation so we can only guess what might happen come May.
The reverse fixture at Swindon has been one of the main talking points of our poor run of late. It was a game that Charlton never really controlled and it was very much a different performance to the one we'd seen against AFC Wimbledon just a few days beforehand, it didnt help we conceded first, and with us also conceding last (in what was a 2-2 draw) it kept the unwanted record of failing to win from 1-0 down in the League since the day Luton Town visited South East London in April 2019.
Since that spirited last gasp equaliser for Brett Pitman its been a couple of months of little change for our visitors this Saturday, the draw would leave the Robins in 22nd place, and having had two cancellations have only played three games since. As a result its given John Sheridan little to work on and as a result has seen Swindon drop a place. In those three games however they have recorded one victory (along with two defeats), coming on the road at Ipswich Town which proves that our opponents wont be travelling up the M4 simply to make up the numbers!!
Charlton Team News
The few positives from Tuesday night was the return of Darren Pratley, who amazingly survived until the dying stages before being booked, and a cameo from Andrew Shinnie returning from injury (despite having a hand in what would prove to be the winner) - Its meant that Lee Bowyer should soon be able to play the team that he wants without constraints, provided of course his players firstly learn to stay injury free, and secondly stop playing these childish games...
Suspension Tag" being the latest, it meant that Albie Morgan would miss the fixture against Peterborough yet could return to the team this Saturday, as too could Ben Watson having rejoined training following a slight hamstring injury at Hull City - Akin Famewo on the other hand remains absent from training so we'll surely see a match up of Deji Oshilaja and Jason Pearce in defence, whilst we could yet see a new Addick added to what is now the Valient 918, that of course will depend on whether the Management team can bring in any new players before 12noon tomorrow.
Prediction
As already mentioned in this preview, its alright for Alan Curbishley to say that every team has a blip (and its convienent we're having ours now), but at the same time its also important that a team comes out of its blip with plenty of time to make the required recovery and push if it wants to achieve promotion come the end of the season. Whilst I have my personal doubts over whether we can manage it anyway, its important we learn from the first half of the season and so turn fixtures like this from draws and defeats into wins... and soon!!
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More tinkering. More huffing and puffing. Another defeat . 1-2
I think I’m turning into Golfie !4 -
Can’t see Watson in midfield as he’s just come back to training.Hopefully, Morgan slots back in straight away and he can kick on from here. Bogle has looked good in his last couple of cameos, whereas Chuks has looked tired and wasteful - his hard work deserves a start and Chuks is better from the bench anyway.
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If he plays Pratley and Watson ahead of JFC I want him sacked at half time tbh17
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Nice review Forever. I’d prefer to see Gunter instead of Pearce with Matthew’s at rb and JFC with Watson in cm. Morgan if Watson isn’t available.If we don’t win I think the heat will be on Bows, rightly or wrongly!2
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Please start Matthews
Please start Chuks and Ronnie together.Do both, we win 3-0.8 -
Concerned about further errors that will cost us. Not sure LB knows what team selection to go for. Anything other than a win won't be good enough against second from bottom. I hope Matthew's starts and Aneke & Ronnie up top.0
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Comfortable Home win.
6-0AmosMatthews - Gunter - Oshilaja - MaatsenWilliams - Morgan - F.Caskey - MillarSchwartz - Aneke
SubsM.Brewer, Pearce, Maddison, Smyth, Washington, Bogle
Purrington in if Maddison out.6 -
I just cannot see LB starting Williams before F-Caskey or Morgan, but what do I know, I have not got one team right yet2
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Let’s hope Watson and Pearce aren’t shoe ins, just because they’re fit.3
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We win comfortably , lose this and Thomas will be putting the 'For Sale' sign up1
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amos
matthews
gunter
oshalaja
maatsen
wiiliams
jfc
morgan
millar
schwartz
aneke
3-0 home win, thank you very much
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This is the best starting 11 of the players currently available.DOUCHER said:amos
matthews
gunter
oshalaja
maatsen
wiiliams
jfc
morgan
millar
schwartz
aneke
3-0 home win, thank you very much2 -
0-2, or 1-3, obvs.0
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Fixed for youoohaahmortimer said:We win comfortably , lose this and Thomas will be putting the 'Manager For Sale' sign up
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Please not Pearce.
He should have been sent off twice on Tuesday and still cost us a goal.
Great warrior but his time is up. Get some kids in to liven things up a bit . We look tired and very mediocre.
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We need to win this one, anything else and I think TS will seriously be considering Bowyers position
Amos
Matthews Gunter Deji Maatsen
Williams JFC Morgan Millar
Aneke Schwartz2 -
I think it’s time for young barker0
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thankyou - makes a change not to get a string of comments suggesting we need to go a bit more defensiveEveshamAddick said:
This is the best starting 11 of the players currently available.DOUCHER said:amos
matthews
gunter
oshalaja
maatsen
wiiliams
jfc
morgan
millar
schwartz
aneke
3-0 home win, thank you very much1 -
you must be joking - ridiculous line upBigRedEvil said:We need to win this one, anything else and I think TS will seriously be considering Bowyers position
Amos
Matthews Gunter Deji Maatsen
Williams JFC Morgan Millar
Aneke Schwartz3 - Sponsored links:
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Honestly think we are going to smash them. Our form is improving, our players are getting fitter, Swindon aren’t a physical team and they’re not as good as us going forward.Bowyer has been playing positive teams recently and I think we’ll go for it with the team BigRedEvil has suggested (except I do think he’ll go for Watson or Shinnie over Morgan)
I’m going for 4-0 to Charlton and a real feeling of optimism going forward.6 -
Oi I listed them first! I just put JFC and Morgan on the right sides!EveshamAddick said:
This is the best starting 11 of the players currently available.DOUCHER said:amos
matthews
gunter
oshalaja
maatsen
wiiliams
jfc
morgan
millar
schwartz
aneke
3-0 home win, thank you very much0 -
Good preview again. I think you’re right with LB resting JFC, as he’s alluded to this previously. Morgan and prats in the middle of the park would be my preference, as Watson needs a solid week of training to get up to speed. Morgan also gives us that forward pass that Watson doesn’t.ForeverAddickted said:Charlton Athletic v Swindon Town
Saturday 23rd January 2021 ... 3pm Kick-Off
Referee: James Linington (Newport)
Introduction
The way Charlton are performing at the moment you could be mistaken for thinking that they're playing some sadistic game with the supporters, four points from two games considering the opposition isnt great form, but it created a benchmark, and so victory over Bristol Rovers last Saturday ended the run of games without a win that dated back to the win over AFC Wimbledon - Tuesday night and it looked like we were about to start a new run before the customary mistakes returned meaning we left London Road with nothing when we perhaps deserved a little bit more... This Saturday though like any upcoming fixtures is an opportunity to quickly put that result behind us, and so start a run that must soon happen if we have any aspirations of a return to the Championship!!
The Opposition
Name: Swindon Town (23rd) | Manager: John Sheridan
Ground: The County Ground
Reverse Fixture: Swindon Town 2-2 Charlton Athletic
Despite it being late in January we've finally hit the stage of the season where we can say that we've faced every team at least once, we're at the halfway point... Usually this stage of the season will give us a clear reflection of where we are in the Division and what target is potentially required to reach whatever the endgame may be, with other sides having games outstanding (some with four games), it means the Division leaves a false representation so we can only guess what might happen come May.
The reverse fixture at Swindon has been one of the main talking points of our poor run of late. It was a game that Charlton never really controlled and it was very much a different performance to the one we'd seen against AFC Wimbledon just a few days beforehand, it didnt help we conceded first, and with us also conceding last (in what was a 2-2 draw) it kept the unwanted record of failing to win from 1-0 down in the League since the day Luton Town visited South East London in April 2019.
Since that spirited last gasp equaliser for Brett Pitman its been a couple of months of little change for our visitors this Saturday, the draw would leave the Robins in 22nd place, and having had two cancellations have only played three games since. As a result its given John Sheridan little to work on and as a result has seen Swindon drop a place. In those three games however they have recorded one victory (along with two defeats), coming on the road at Ipswich Town which proves that our opponents wont be travelling up the M4 simply to make up the numbers!!
Charlton Team News
The few positives from Tuesday night was the return of Darren Pratley, who amazingly survived until the dying stages before being booked, and a cameo from Andrew Shinnie returning from injury (despite having a hand in what would prove to be the winner) - Its meant that Lee Bowyer should soon be able to play the team that he wants without constraints, provided of course his players firstly learn to stay injury free, and secondly stop playing these childish games...
Suspension Tag" being the latest, it meant that Albie Morgan would miss the fixture against Peterborough yet could return to the team this Saturday, as too could Ben Watson having rejoined training following a slight hamstring injury at Hull City - Akin Famewo on the other hand remains absent from training so we'll surely see a match up of Deji Oshilaja and Jason Pearce in defence, whilst we could yet see a new Addick added to what is now the Valient 918, that of course will depend on whether the Management team can bring in any new players before 12noon tomorrow.Amos
Gunter | Oshilaja | Pearce | Maatsen
Williams | Pratley | Watson | Millar
Schwartz | Aneke
Substitutes Bench: Maynard-Brewer | Purrington | Matthews | Forster-Caskey | Morgan | Smyth | Washington
Prediction
As already mentioned in this preview, its alright for Alan Curbishley to say that every team has a blip (and its convienent we're having ours now), but at the same time its also important that a team comes out of its blip with plenty of time to make the required recovery and push if it wants to achieve promotion come the end of the season. Whilst I have my personal doubts over whether we can manage it anyway, its important we learn from the first half of the season and so turn fixtures like this from draws and defeats into wins... and soon!!Upfront I’d like Ronnie to start, maybe with Conor, to see if they fit together.Pearce will play, simply bc we don’t have other options, and I think LB would prefer a natural CH alongside Osh. Personally I’d like to see him dropped.2-0 Morgan and Ronnie.2 -
Amos
Matthews, Oshilaja, Pearce, Maatsen
JFC
Morgan, Shinnie, Millar
Aneke, Washington
Rest for Gunter I think, Pratley dropped for this one as I think we’ll be offensive, Shinnie thrown back in cos whilst we’ve suffered at centre back his absence has gone under the radar, one of the most important players in the squad for me, I think Schwartz is still not ready by the looks of things.
We’ll win this one I’m sure if it, 2-1 Aneke x22 -
Our 'blip' has lasted a quarter of the season so far - let's hope we see the end of it this weekend or it ain't no blip3
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2-0 and a straight forward victory. Look forward to hearing how we’ve turned the corner as we make it two wins in three.0
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Is that THE John Sheridan ... who for that brief few minutes thought that he had put Leeds up before Peter Shirtliff made himself a legend?I’m going for 2-1 with them going one Nil up first, to match the symmetry.2
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Yep that John Sheridan0
